--- title: The researcher Max Roser put it in three sentences that are all true… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics description: The researcher Max Roser put it in three sentences that are all true at once: the world is much better, the world is awful, and the world can be much better. Who acts: researcher, three sentences, world. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (researcher, three sentences, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:1 # text = The researcher Max Roser put it in three sentences that are all true at once: the world is much better, the world is awful, and the world can be much better. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 researcher researcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 Roser Roser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 all all ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 13 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | the researcher | evidence | | three sentences | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sentence=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | three sentences | | | | | all, true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the world | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the world | | | | | awful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | can | the world | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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